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		deckarep on April 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Build an Evil Compiler Perhaps another way to say it-using an evil compiler could bootstrap any kind of malicious code in the compiled artifact whether it’s a compiler or not.

josephcsible on April 19, 2022 [–]

No, because if that's all it did, just rebuilding your compiler twice would free you from it.

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